Title 31 of the United States Code
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- § 101. Agency
- § 102. Executive agency
- § 103. United States
- § 1101. Definitions
- § 1102. Fiscal year
- § 1103. Budget ceiling
- § 1104. Budget and appropriations authority of the President
- § 1105. Budget contents and submission to Congress
- § 1106. Supplemental budget estimates and changes
- § 1107. Deficiency and supplemental appropriations
- § 1108. Preparation and submission of appropriations requests to the President
- § 1109. Current programs and activities estimates
- § 1110. Year-ahead requests for authorizing legislation
- § 1111. Improving economy and efficiency
- § 1112. Fiscal, budget, and program information
- § 1113. Congressional information
- § 1114. Repealed. Pub. L. 103–355, title II, §2454(c)(2), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3326
- § 1115. Federal Government and agency performance plans
- § 1116. Agency performance reporting
- § 1117. Exemption
- § 1118. Pilot projects for performance goals
- § 1119. Pilot projects for performance budgeting
- § 1120. Federal Government and agency priority goals
- § 1121. Quarterly priority progress reviews and use of performance information
- § 1122. Transparency of programs, priority goals, and results
- § 1123. Chief Operating Officers
- § 1124. Performance Improvement Officers and the Performance Improvement Council
- § 1125. Elimination of unnecessary agency reporting
- § 1126. Program Management Improvement Officers and Program Management Policy Council
- § 1301. Application
- § 1302. Determining amounts appropriated
- § 1303. Effect of changes in titles of appropriations
- § 1304. Judgments, awards, and compromise settlements
- § 1305. Miscellaneous permanent appropriations
- § 1306. Use of foreign credits
- § 1307. Public building construction
- § 1308. Telephone and metered services
- § 1309. Social security tax
- § 1310. Appropriations for private organizations
- § 1321. Trust funds
- § 1322. Payments of unclaimed trust fund amounts and refund of amounts erroneously deposited
- § 1323. Trust funds for certain fees, donations, quasi-public amounts, and unearned amounts
- § 1324. Refund of internal revenue collections
- § 1341. Limitations on expending and obligating amounts
- § 1342. Limitation on voluntary services
- § 1343. Buying and leasing passenger motor vehicles and aircraft
- § 1344. Passenger carrier use
- § 1345. Expenses of meetings
- § 1346. Commissions, councils, boards, and interagency and similar groups
- § 1347. Appropriations or authorizations required for agencies in existence for more than one year
- § 1348. Telephone installation and charges
- § 1349. Adverse personnel actions
- § 1350. Criminal penalty
- § 1351. Reports on violations
- § 1352. Limitation on use of appropriated funds to influence certain Federal contracting and financial transactions
- § 1353. Acceptance of travel and related expenses from non-Federal sources
- § 1354. Limitation on use of appropriated funds for contracts with entities not meeting veterans' employment reporting requirements
- § 1355. Prohibition on use of funds for portraits
- § 1501. Documentary evidence requirement for Government obligations
- § 1502. Balances available
- § 1503. Comptroller General reports of amounts for which no accounting is made
- § 1511. Definition and application
- § 1512. Apportionment and reserves
- § 1513. Officials controlling apportionments
- § 1514. Administrative division of apportionments
- § 1515. Authorized apportionments necessitating deficiency or supplemental appropriations
- § 1516. Exemptions
- § 1517. Prohibited obligations and expenditures
- § 1518. Adverse personnel actions
- § 1519. Criminal penalty
- § 1531. Transfers of functions and activities
- § 1532. Withdrawal and credit
- § 1533. Transfers of appropriations for salaries and expenses to carry out national defense responsibilities
- § 1534. Adjustments between appropriations
- § 1535. Agency agreements
- § 1536. Crediting payments from purchases between executive agencies
- § 1537. Services between the United States Government and the District of Columbia government
- § 1551. Definitions; applicability of subchapter
- § 1552. Procedure for appropriation accounts available for definite periods
- § 1553. Availability of appropriation accounts to pay obligations
- § 1554. Audit, control, and reporting
- § 1555. Closing of appropriation accounts available for indefinite periods
- § 1556. Comptroller General: reports on appropriation accounts
- § 1557. Authority for exemptions in appropriation laws
- § 1558. Availability of funds following resolution of a formal protest or other challenge
- § 301. Department of the Treasury
- § 302. Treasury of the United States
- § 303. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- § 304. United States Mint
- § 305. Federal Financing Bank
- § 306. Fiscal Service
- § 307. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- § 308. United States Customs Service
- § 309. Office of Thrift Supervision
- § 310. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- § 3101. Public debt limit
- § 3101A. Presidential modification of the debt ceiling
- § 3102. Bonds
- § 3103. Notes
- § 3104. Certificates of indebtedness and Treasury bills
- § 3105. Savings bonds and savings certificates
- § 3106. Retirement and savings bonds
- § 3107. Increasing interest rates and investment yields on retirement bonds
- § 3108. Prohibition against circulation privilege
- § 3109. Tax and loss bonds
- § 311. Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- § 3110. Sale of obligations of governments of foreign countries
- § 3111. New issue used to buy, redeem, or refund outstanding obligations
- § 3112. Sinking fund for retiring and cancelling bonds and notes
- § 3113. Accepting gifts
- § 312. Terrorism and financial intelligence
- § 3121. Procedure
- § 3122. Banks and trust companies as depositaries
- § 3123. Payment of obligations and interest on the public debt
- § 3124. Exemption from taxation
- § 3125. Relief for lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced obligations
- § 3126. Losses and relief from liability related to redeeming savings bonds and notes
- § 3127. Credit to officers, employees, and agents for stolen Treasury notes
- § 3128. Proof of death to support payment
- § 3129. Appropriation to pay expenses
- § 313. Federal Insurance Office
- § 3130. Annual public debt report
- § 314. Covered agreements
- § 315. Continuing in office
- § 316. Treasury Attaché Program
- § 321. General authority of the Secretary
- § 322. Working capital fund
- § 323. Investment of operating cash
- § 324. Disposing and extending the maturity of obligations
- § 325. International affairs authorization
- § 326. Availability of appropriations for certain expenses
- § 327. Advancements and reimbursements for services
- § 328. Accounts and payments of former disbursing officials
- § 329. Limitations on outside activities
- § 330. Practice before the Department
- § 3301. General duties of the Secretary of the Treasury
- § 3302. Custodians of money
- § 3303. Designation of depositaries
- § 3304. Transfers of public money from depositaries
- § 3305. Audits of depositaries
- § 331. Reports
- § 332. Miscellaneous administrative authority
- § 3321. Disbursing authority in the executive branch
- § 3322. Disbursing officials
- § 3323. Warrants
- § 3324. Advances
- § 3325. Vouchers
- § 3326. Waiver of requirements for warrants and advances
- § 3327. General authority to issue checks and other drafts
- § 3328. Paying checks and drafts
- § 3329. Withholding checks to be sent to foreign countries
- § 333. Prohibition of misuse of Department of the Treasury names, symbols, etc.
- § 3330. Payment of Department of Veterans Affairs checks for the benefit of individuals in foreign countries
- § 3331. Substitute checks
- § 3332. Required direct deposit
- § 3333. Relief for payments made without negligence
- § 3334. Cancellation and proceeds distribution of Treasury checks
- § 3335. Timely disbursement of Federal funds
- § 3336. Electronic benefit transfer pilot
- § 3341. Sale of Government warrants, checks, drafts, and obligations
- § 3342. Check cashing and exchange transactions
- § 3343. Check forgery insurance fund
- § 3351. Definitions
- § 3352. Estimates of improper payments and reports on actions to reduce improper payments
- § 3353. Compliance
- § 3354. Do Not Pay Initiative
- § 3355. Improving recovery of improper payments
- § 3356. Improving the use of data by executive agencies for curbing improper payments
- § 3357. Financial and administrative controls relating to fraud and improper payments
- § 3358. Interagency working group for Governmentwide payment integrity improvement
- § 3501. Definition
- § 3511. Prescribing accounting requirements and developing accounting systems
- § 3512. Executive agency accounting and other financial management reports and plans
- § 3513. Financial reporting and accounting system
- § 3514. Discontinuing certain accounts maintained by the Comptroller General
- § 3515. Financial statements of agencies
- § 3516. Reports consolidation
- § 3521. Audits by agencies
- § 3522. Making and submitting accounts
- § 3523. General audit authority of the Comptroller General
- § 3524. Auditing expenditures approved without vouchers
- § 3525. Auditing nonappropriated fund activities
- § 3526. Settlement of accounts
- § 3527. General authority to relieve accountable officials and agents from liability
- § 3528. Responsibilities and relief from liability of certifying officials
- § 3529. Requests for decisions of the Comptroller General
- § 3530. Adjusting accounts
- § 3531. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–316, title I, §115(f)(1), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3834
- § 3532. Notification of account deficiencies
- § 3541. Distress warrants
- § 3542. Carrying out distress warrants
- § 3543. Postponing a distress warrant proceeding
- § 3544. Rights and remedies of the United States Government reserved
- § 3545. Civil action to recover money
- § 3551. Definitions
- § 3552. Protests by interested parties concerning procurement actions
- § 3553. Review of protests; effect on contracts pending decision
- § 3554. Decisions on protests
- § 3555. Regulations; authority of Comptroller General to verify assertions
- § 3556. Nonexclusivity of remedies; matters included in agency record
- § 3557. Expedited action in protests of public-private competitions
- § 3561. Repealed. Pub. L. 111–204, §2(h)(6)(A)(i), July 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 2231
- § 3562. Disposition of recovered funds
- § 3563. to 3567. Repealed. Pub. L. 111–204, §2(h)(6)(A)(i), July 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 2231
- § 3701. Definitions and application
- § 3702. Authority to settle claims
- § 3711. Collection and compromise
- § 3712. Time limitations for presenting certain claims of the Government
- § 3713. Priority of Government claims
- § 3714. Keeping money due States in default
- § 3715. Buying real property of a debtor
- § 3716. Administrative offset
- § 3717. Interest and penalty on claims
- § 3718. Contracts for collection services
- § 3719. Reports on debt collection activities
- § 3720. Collection of payments
- § 3720A. Reduction of tax refund by amount of debt
- § 3720B. Barring delinquent Federal debtors from obtaining Federal loans or loan insurance guarantees
- § 3720C. Debt Collection Improvement Account
- § 3720D. Garnishment
- § 3720E. Dissemination of information regarding identity of delinquent debtors
- § 3721. Claims of personnel of agencies and the District of Columbia government for personal property damage or loss
- § 3722. Claims of officers and employees at Government penal and correctional institutions
- § 3723. Small claims for privately owned property damage or loss
- § 3724. Claims for damages caused by investigative or law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice
- § 3725. Claims of non-nationals for personal injury or death in a foreign country
- § 3726. Payment for transportation
- § 3727. Assignments of claims
- § 3728. Setoff against judgment
- § 3729. False claims
- § 3730. Civil actions for false claims
- § 3731. False claims procedure
- § 3732. False claims jurisdiction
- § 3733. Civil investigative demands
- § 3801. Definitions
- § 3802. False claims and statements; liability
- § 3803. Hearing and determinations
- § 3804. Subpoena authority
- § 3805. Judicial review
- § 3806. Collection of civil penalties and assessments
- § 3807. Right to administrative offset
- § 3808. Limitations
- § 3809. Regulations
- § 3810. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title III, §3001(c)(1), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 734
- § 3811. Effect on other law
- § 3812. Prohibition against delegation
- § 3901. Definitions and application
- § 3902. Interest penalties
- § 3903. Regulations
- § 3904. Limitations on discount payments
- § 3905. Payment provisions relating to construction contracts
- § 3906. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–362, title XIII, §1301(c)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3293
- § 3907. Relationship to other laws
- § 501. Office of Management and Budget
- § 502. Officers
- § 503. Functions of Deputy Director for Management
- § 504. Office of Federal Financial Management
- § 505. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
- § 506. Office of Federal Procurement Policy
- § 507. Office of Electronic Government
- § 5101. Decimal system
- § 5102. Standard weight
- § 5103. Legal tender
- § 5111. Minting and issuing coins, medals, and numismatic items
- § 5112. Denominations, specifications, and design of coins
- § 5113. Tolerances and testing of coins
- § 5114. Engraving and printing currency and security documents
- § 5115. United States currency notes
- § 5116. Buying and selling gold and silver
- § 5117. Transferring gold and gold certificates
- § 5118. Gold clauses and consent to sue
- § 5119. Redemption and cancellation of currency
- § 5120. Obsolete, mutilated, and worn coins and currency
- § 5121. Refining, assaying, and valuation of bullion
- § 5122. Payment to depositors
- § 5131. Organization
- § 5132. Administrative
- § 5133. Settlement of accounts
- § 5134. Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund
- § 5135. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee
- § 5136. United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund
- § 5141. Operation of the Bureau
- § 5142. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund
- § 5143. Payment for services
- § 5144. Providing impressions of portraits and vignettes
- § 5151. Conversion of currency of foreign countries
- § 5152. Value of United States money holdings in international institutions
- § 5153. Counterfeit currency
- § 5154. State taxation
- § 5155. Providing engraved plates of portraits of deceased members of Congress
- § 521. Employees
- § 522. Necessary expenditures
- § 5301. Buying obligations of the United States Government
- § 5302. Stabilizing exchange rates and arrangements
- § 5303. Reserved coins and currencies of foreign countries
- § 5304. Regulations
- § 5311. Declaration of purpose
- § 5312. Definitions and application
- § 5313. Reports on domestic coins and currency transactions
- § 5314. Records and reports on foreign financial agency transactions